SPAN : AN ADVENTURE IN ASIAN AND AUSTRALIAN WRITING by LIONEL WIGMORE (ed)
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Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
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Fish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist. Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss f ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
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In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky's gripping and heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Naz ...Show more
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
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The author of the international bestsellerA Suitable Boyreturns with a passionate and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. When an English quartet, the Maggiore, undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven's, violinist Michael Holme is overwhelmed by memories of mastering the piece as a student ...Show more
Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
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In one of the most important novels of his long and illustrious career, Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz tells the story of a delightful Egyptian family, but also reveals a second, hidden, and daring narrative: the spiritual history of mankind. "An ambitious fable that attempts to embrace within it pag ...Show more
The Summer After the Funeral by JANE GARDAM
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A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate. A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret life of fairly dangerous fantasy. Athene's mother, at once highly organised and monumentally vague, dispa ...Show more
Indigo or Mapping the Waters by Marina Warner
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Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel "The Lost Father" was Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
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Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal.Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast pano ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
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In 1912, a child in a Yorkshire mining town studies for the Cambridge entrance exam so she can escape to another life. Decades later Faro, her granddaughter, returns. Faro?s father was the son of refugees who fled European unrest. But for all her exotic ancestry and glamour, has she travelled any furthe ...Show more
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
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Candida Wilton arrives in London ? alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she is filled with a strange excitement ? what might happen to her now in her final years? Prepared to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures ? trips to a gym, visits to her reading group ? she finds her horizon ...Show more